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My visit with the Lord of the Startups, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham (pandodaily.com)
10 points by pnr on Oct 25, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


What does PG mean by "being an animal"?


"It means someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive.

What it means specifically depends on the job: a salesperson who just won't take no for an answer; a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM rather than go to bed leaving code with a bug in it; a PR person who will cold-call New York Times reporters on their cell phones; a graphic designer who feels physical pain when something is two millimeters out of place."

- http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html


Thanks, aviv!




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